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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by habosa on Friday June 09, 2023 @09:24AM (#36257475)
Why is nearly every comment here downplaying this? I don’t know if this is great cinema but it’s definitely original and a stunning achievement. It’s like climbing a mountain or running a marathon: the difficulty is the point.
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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by thfuran on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:05AM (#36257986)
>but it’s definitely original and a stunning achievement.

Is it? What about Pinocchio?

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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by dmbche on Friday June 09, 2023 @10:28AM (#36258323)
Boyhood took 12 years to make, but no one likes it.

The Werner Herzog movie where they moved a steam boat over a mountain (Fitzcarraldo) was incredibly difficult, but most people haven't seen it.

Difficulty can't be the point - it has to be a movie first, if you want to keep people's interest

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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by jb1991 on Friday June 09, 2023 @12:28PM (#36260246)
I loved Boyhood, one of my favorites.
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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by habosa on Saturday June 10, 2023 @12:58PM (#36272279)
Fitzcarraldo is one of the better movies I’ve ever seen and the production was so famously difficult they made a documentary about it.
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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by Closi on Friday June 09, 2023 @11:37AM (#36259436)
I mean it's a stunning achievement in the same way counting out loud to a million is, but it doesn't necessarily mean I think it was a good use of time in the context of making a movie.
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Re:The Making of the First Ever Fully Painted Feature Film “... by iainmerrick on Friday June 09, 2023 @12:34PM (#36260349)
The difficulty alone isn’t the point, judging by the rhetoric from the filmmakers themselves.

It’s meant to be an homage to Van Gogh, but it doesn’t actually have anything interesting to say about him or his work.

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